Welcome to Litsy!

It‘s a beautiful day here in the sip! 🌞 a great day for a pina colado daiquiri tea and sending #LitsyLove 📚📖

This store is in Pensacola, about hour from where I live, so I haven't shopped there frequently, but I've gone out of my way to go there several times. Not anymore!! I'm so mad and disappointed.

New favorite bookmark.

Another place I never dreamed I'd actually get to step foot in

#weeklyforecast

Reading:
Audio: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Should finish tomorrow)
Physical: Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya
Kindle: Skin and Bones by Paul Doiron

Up next
Audio: Not sure. Depends if my hold from Litsy come in, if not I will find something
Physical: The Lost Queen by Signe Pike (Reread bc I got book 3 for Christmas and I need to reread since it's been a bit since I first read it)
Kindle: Whack Job: A History of Ax ⬇️

#Bibliophile
Day 2. Poetry Collection
#PoetryCollection
I have not read this one, but I‘d like to add it to my collection.

#weekendreads

My May TBR

It may be slightly ambitious (especially with how crazy things will get with the school year winding down) but I know a few of these should be quick reads so here's hoping 🤞

#readyourkindle #readyourebooks @CBee

Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu

#PoetryMatters

#Weave

@TheSpineView

My dear fellow Littens,

I dare to ask you for your inputs and ideas. We are extending our childrensbook section in the bookshop and I'm working on a list on books we might get in the near future for our young customers.

Now I'd like to ask you which books do your children enjoy the most? What do you think should we have to offer? What do your teens like to read? I also want to have something in stock that would interest boys.

So, hit me!

Stopping by this week?

@mollyharperauth
@judithvalente_author
@alexfinlayauthor
@karenuhlmann
Kate Posey
@elenataylorauthor
@patriciashanaesmith
@penguinrandomhouse
@partnersincrimevbt
@smithpublicity

Be careful what you wish for. Is there a conduit to another dimension? What happens when you unknowingly open a line of communication with an unknown correspondent? Unexpected consequences. This short story is spooky. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

What happens when a mother can‘t bear the grief of her loss? She learns the truth about what really happened and it gives her a new purpose. Not a happy purpose, but new understanding of how she should move forward. Are there ghosts involved? Maybe. This is a sad, spine tingling short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An intimate conversation with Ocean.

Link to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000705949596

There is no such place as paradise. An island where there are vacation homes and a strict vacation season. Just follow the rules and ignore what‘s under the surface and you‘ll be OK. This short story is horrifying. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

May‘s picks for #readYourKobo. We‘ll see how many I actually get to this month. 🙄

So many great and fun books this month! And I actually did pretty well keeping up with my NetGalley ARCs! #MonthlyRoundup

#AprilChallengeUpdate

Read #Bookspin & #DoubleSpin

Read 1 #ReadYourEBook

#WickedWords:

The Briar Club: Gambling
King A Life: Singer, Massachusetts
Wild Dark Shore: Fish
The Martha‘s Vineyard Beach and Book Club: Portuguese

#ISpy

April: 5 remaining
March: 4 remaining
February: 2 remaining
January: complete

@TheAromaofBooks @CBee @AsYouWish

#AprilWrapUp

Loved Wild Dark Shore and P & P as always. Enjoyed Midnight in Soap Lake and The Briar Club immensely. Learned so much from King.

DNF‘d 3 books

It‘s impossible to see the future, isn‘t it? Can a normal conference room transform into a crystal ball? Things like that just don‘t happen. It‘s certainly not a gift to Jennifer. A very eerie short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I‘m letting Lil Bit have my chair today! Now I know why my flowers aren‘t coming up!! Miss Priss 🐾 🌺 and Tux looking all handsome!!

#Cats
#Bibliophile

Happy Caturday!!! 🖤 🐾 🤍

Judgement comes in strange forms. A man who is only thinking of doing something morally questionable, but is discovered, and whose life starts to spiral downwards. His judge, jury, and potential executioner is something wholly unexpected. A disturbing short story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Finally starting #ShelfSweeper. This is my ever growing TBR shelf. And we won‘t talk about what‘s on my kindle and kobo. Now… where to start….
@Andrew65 @Tove_Reads #4Elizabeth

#Weather

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

#RantTime

With the proposed elimination of library, museum, humanities programs, and PBS funding, among other entities, it is imperative that voices are raised against these measures. My lifeblood is all about humanities—I‘m a librarian, after all—and it is terrifying that my skills are considered to be unimportant to the government. I‘d rant more, but I‘ll save that for another day.

Please contact your representatives. See link below. ⬇️

1. Happy Color App
2. Reading
3. Checking things off my to do lists
4. Mexican food
5. My helpful husband.

#5JoysFridays. @DebinHawaii

Tagging anyone who is reading this 😁

1. The rose my husband planted for me is blooming like crazy! So many flowers!
2. I bought some fabric on Etsy and finally made a valance for my bedroom window
3. Got tickets to see Head & the Heart at the Greek in September
4. Spontaneous library haul
5. Angel City beat Washington 4-3 tonight! Crazy game!

#5joysFriday

1) My faith- prayer works 😊😉 2) The trips to the library with my mom this week 3) The problem with the neighbor above us now has a logical explanation. 4) I have been reading a lot more this week. 5) You guys and all of your pet and flower 🌺 pictures 🩷🫶🏽😊 #5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

💛 our baby boy is healthy 💙
💛 my flowers are coming along!
💛 my daughters and their significant others!
💛 my kitties and hubby are doing great! I love my new facial products!
💛 back porch reading with the birds singing 🎶 🐦

#5joysfriday

1. Frankie
2. This sticker by number book
3. Independent bookstore day
4. Coffee
5. Flowers and trees blooming
Thanks @Kshakal @DebinHawaii #5joysFriday

Translates as: The White Spot. An Instructin to antiracist thinking.

I got angry, I got sad and I felt shame. But I've also learned a lot about racism in Germany (Switzerland isn't any different when it comes to that), where it comes from and also, what we can do about it. Sadly, many things the author warns about, have already come true. That's why it's so important to read those books. Even if it's uncomfortable.

#roll100 @PuddleJumper

From Our Beautiful Boys by Sameer Pandya:
Except for the Native Caves - tucked high in the hills above town - the city of Chilesworth presents nothing extraordinary.

From Skin & Bones by Paul Doiron:
The wind moved across the surface of the lake like breath upon a mirror.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

Happy #5JoysFriday 💛💛💛

Life is finally getting better again 🙌

1. Visiting an exhibition about foxes with @VaniBarelyReads
2. Having a picnic in the woods with a new friend
3. Working so many early shifts to make our bookshop beautiful
4. Surprise package from a dear friend
5. Finding out that our library has expanded their Gender and Diversity section 💖

@DebinHawaii

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

1. Going for Hiabchi tomorrow to celebrate my husband‘s birthday!! Yum 😋
2. Discovered some new emojis with the new IOS update:🫜🫆🫟 🫩(this last one is my spirit animal 🤪)
3. Everything is so green and lush right now! 🌷🌿🍃🌱
4. Coffee ☕️
5. The SAVE Act will be DOA when it reaches the Senate 😮‍💨 Thanks for doing something, Chuck Schumer

If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged!

Happy Friday☀️

1 & 2 serious Easter cookie decorating, and LB‘s first experience with cascarones
3 I fashioned a book spot from a vintage picnic basket
4 another book case
5 LB and big sis at the library‘s children‘s area

Thanks for the tag❣️

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

Play? @monalyisha @Blueberry @Leftcoastzen

Giddy yup

#Bookspin

#Doublespin

#Bookspinbingo

@TheAromaofBooks

Posting my May #BookSpinBingo list now before viewing the reveal post!

#Wear

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

Survey link: https://www.listchallenges.com/litsy-the-bbcs-big-read-100-1

My score was 44

#TLT @dabbe

Play? @julieclair @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @lil1inblue

🎉

#ThreeListThursday

Lots of favorites on this list: Jane Eyre, Watership Down, War & Peace, The Shell Seekers to name a few

Unpopular opinion stinkers: The Alchemist and Captain Corelli‘s Mandolin

@dabbe

Changing it up and actually remembering to post my #bookspin list before the spin. Watch out, world. 🤪

30%
Some of my favorite
Anna Karenina
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
To Kill A Mockingbird
Little Women

#TLT ##Threelistthursday @dabbe

My totals were down from March but I had a week off in March which gave me a boost.

April #wrapup

#BookNerdBliss

#StartASpark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wAYbTVRovc

here is the link to the video of the artists redesigning 1960s books.

#StartASpark

https://colorifyai.art/

or if you are really feeling creative, try making a new cover of your own.

Hello Littens. It's #StartASpark day. I thought I would post about something creative this time. I watched a video on Youtube the other day (will post about that too), where a couple of artists did a challenge of redesigning book covers. I really liked that idea. And it gave me a thought. Can we make coloring pages of books that we read? The answer is yes.

If you do audiobooks and love to be artsy, why don't you try this out.